Playful Grizzly Bear Cub

Posted on | September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment

This was probably my favorite photo from Alaska. I don’t know what it is but I can’t stop smiling when I look at this. Seeing the grizzly bear cub playing with the driftwood for quite some time, it was fascinating to watch the destruction the cub did on it.

The Thrill of the Chase

Posted on | August 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

Frans Lanting once said that, “The worst day in the field is better than the best day in an office.” To me that speaks to the unpredictability of being outdoors. You just never know what will happen. There’s no need to be an alcoholic if you are a nature photographer because your life should be fulfilling enough as is!

As we were watching the grizzly bear, my heart was beating pretty hard from the nervous energy. A sow and two cubs walked inbetween our group and the sandhill cranes. They could have had their pick of any prey they wanted but the sow and one of the cubs seemed oblivious to everything other than grass. This cub however took a long, hard look at the sandhill cranes meanwhile I’m sensing that it is going to pounce any second now.

There’s no need to describe the outcome. I’ll leave it to your imagination.

Creek Crossings in an ATV Vehicle

Posted on | August 29, 2010 | 4 Comments

Some of the more tense moments during the photo tour had nothing to do with grizzly bears but strategically trying to figure out how to cross Silver Salmon Creek without stranding the ATV vehicles or worse, getting stranded ourselves. Another tour group for example was stranded for several hours out on the beach because they didn’t cross the creek before high tide. You really have to pay attention and hang onto your camera gear while riding in one of these too because they bounce around a lot on the dirt paths. Also, I got smacked upside the head several times by a tree while riding past a forested section. It hurts! The funny part was on the last day when I saw a tree coming up and knew it would smack Ron upside the head but I didn’t warn him beforehand. I tend to observe first and think before opening my mouth. Classic introvert moment – what else can I say?

Alaska Wildflowers

Posted on | August 27, 2010 | 8 Comments

Much of the roadside along the Seward Highway from Anchorage to Seward was carpeted with purple fireweed wildflowers. I quickly learned that nothing comes easy in Alaska however as the extremely windy conditions made for wildflower photography nearly impossible during my trip except for this brief lull in action on my 2nd evening in Alaska.

Unbearable Headache II

Posted on | August 25, 2010 | 11 Comments

I have to give Ron credit for the blog post title because I couldn’t think of anything else that fit! So here is his version of Un-bear-able Headache. This was taken on the morning of our 3rd day at Silver Salmon Creek. This day was really the only day of my Alaska trip that I thought the weather was miserable. It was raining all day so I had to use a homemade rain jacket for my camera and lens. The rain jacket consisted of a white GLAD trash bag with a hole cut out of the bottom for my telephoto lens with duct tape securely wrapping it around the lens. The camera was covered by the trash bag when I wasn’t using it and when I did have to use it, I merely lifted the opening to see through the viewfinder. Shooting photos this way wasn’t inconvenient but it messed up the sound on the video clips I took of the bears nursing because all you can hear is the bag flying in the wind. Also, I couldn’t use any other lenses on this day because the bag I cutout only fit the telephoto.

Back to the photo: it is interesting to see my photo and Ron’s photo of the same moment. We used different cameras and lenses so the perspective is a bit different obviously. Most noticeably, there seems to be a difference in color balance. There are many factors that could have influenced this including differences in camera sensors (1DS MKIII v. 7D). This could also be since I use Lightroom 2 to process my RAW files and I think Ron uses Photoshop CS4 for his. I also know that every camera’s version of RAW files default to a slightly different white balance setting so maybe that is another reason. I’m not sure how other photographers choose their settings but I shoot all of my photos on daylight balance setting in-camera and rarely change it during my photo processing.

As a counterpoint to my post on Wildlife Photography Ethics, the cool thing about digital is that no two people process their photos exactly the same way. Even then, we don’t even process each of our own photos the same way. You can’t. What works for one photo won’t work for the next. This is different from the film days when experienced photographers can spot whether you used Fuji Velvia or Kodachrome. If we were using film on this trip, our photos would probably look like they were from the same photographer. Instead we have two different versions of Unbearable Headache.

Cute Grizzly Bear Cub

Posted on | August 23, 2010 | 2 Comments

I like how the grizzly bear cub appears to be smiling. I’m sure it probably didn’t really feel any emotion at this moment but who can resist anthropomorphizing animals? We tend to like what we can relate to. The funny part would be sometimes they would attempt to walk a few steps while standing on their two feet then fall down. Sometimes they even fell backward while attempting to stand. It was cute to watch.

The Anchorage Museum

Posted on | August 22, 2010 | 3 Comments

My dream photography assignment I think would be to have Smithsonian Magazine send me out to some traditional Alaskan native villages to document their daily life and rituals. I’ve always had a fascination for Native American art since I was a kid because of the totem poles at Stanley Park in Vancouver then I started visiting places like Arizona and New Mexico which have a different style but that is what draws me to it. There are so many different styles yet they are all distinct.

I went to The Anchorage Museum shortly after arriving in Anchorage on my first day in Alaska. It was conveniently located across the street from my hotel for that night and I’m glad that I went because much of it is based on traditional cultures and also covers the history of Alaska from pre-historic days to the Alaskan oil industry issues of today. It is a good introduction to the state. I highly recommend a visit if you are ever in Alaska.

Hip Waders

Posted on | August 20, 2010 | 13 Comments

Our arrival back to Silver Salmon Creek was quite the adventure. We timed it for the low tide because that is when grizzly bears were most likely to be fishing for salmon at the mouth of Silver Salmon Creek. Due to the low tide situation however, the boat had to be docked about a quarter-mile offshore. We all had hip waders on but it was still disconcerting to see how far away from shore we would have to walk through water in order to get back on land. I was mainly worried about not falling over and drowning the rental camera and my only telephoto lens. Thankfully we all made it back to the beach without incident.

Later that afternoon however I was following Jenny while trying to cross at the mouth of Silver Salmon Creek but that proved a bit too deep for my hip waders… I almost got knocked over from the current a few times so we ended up crossing somewhere else. My legs felt like two blocks of concrete by this point due to the large amount of water in the waders. I had to drain them not once, but twice over the next hour. Everyone else seemed concerned but I thought it was funny. All part of the Alaskan experience I suppose… But mainly I was trying to compare my hardiness level to a true Alaskan like Ron.

Tufted Puffins

Posted on | August 18, 2010 | 4 Comments

Ron was generous enough to let all of us take turns on this scene halfway up the rocky cliffside with his 600mm f4 + 2x TC. With the 1.6x crop sensor of the Canon 7D camera body I was using the focal length was equivalent to 1920mm in focal length! According to my EXIF data, the birds were 56.7 meters (186 feet) away from the camera. I was super impressed with how tack sharp the photo came out with this setup. Of course, all of this gear added up weighs about 30 lbs. if not more so there is a trade-off but wow!

A note about the puffins: There are two types of puffin in this area – horned puffins and tufted puffins. The horned puffins as seen in the previous blog post have horns on their eyes while the tufted puffins do not have the horns but rather have blonde streaks of hair on the head.

Horned Puffin

Posted on | August 16, 2010 | 14 Comments

On the morning of our 2nd day, Jenny and Drew took us on a short boat ride over to see the historic Snug Harbor Cannery and then to an island frequented by horned puffins and tufted puffins. The ride was pretty nice as you could see countless waterfalls flowing down into Cook Inlet from the mountain cliffsides.

The puffin themselves are actually quite difficult to photograph because they rarely remain still even when perched on rocks. When they fly they are extremely fast which made flight photography quite a challenge. A challenge I accepted however and so with the excellent autofocus capabilities of the Canon 7D, I was able to capture a few tack sharp images of flying puffins.

Autofocus was something I never had used much of in my years of photography since my style is mainly landscape and travel journalism. Also, I have never owned a camera / lens combination that was quite as good with AF as the 7D with a 400mm f5.6 lens.  I didn’t know how to use autofocus as a result. On the first morning of the bear tour, I was manually focusing but upon closer inspection I wasn’t quite getting the eyes in focus on a bunch of photos so after talking it over with Ron and Mike, I decided to give autofocus a try in the afternoon. I started to get the hang of it by the end of the day just in time for the puffin tour the next morning.

After many unsuccessful attempts at photographing puffins in flight, I finally figured it out by tracking the puffins for a long period of time while they were flying out at sea until the AF locks onto the bird then it made it much easier to get them in focus as they approached overhead. Thanks to the puffin experience, my success rate at photographing grizzly bears improved dramatically. The 7D is an amazing camera!

Winner Creek Gorge

Posted on | August 15, 2010 | 8 Comments

Winner Creek Gorge is a nice five-mile roundtrip hike in the Chugach National Forest about 45 minutes south of Anchorage. For the adventurous-types: there is a cool hand-operated tram near the end of the trail that you can use to cross Winner Creek with.

Winner Creek Trail is not lung-busting but it makes for a good post-dinner workout during the long Alaskan summer days. I photographed this on my first night in Alaska at the suggestion of Ron Niebrugge. The main reason why I chose this hike during my limited amount of time in Anchorage was because it was raining outside so that ruled out any big landscape opportunities along the Seward Highway. From previous experience photographing temperate rain forests in Marin County, California, I knew that I could do the hike without getting my camera too wet due to the thick forest.

Though I’ve experienced long Canadian summer days in the past, I still lost track of time and was surprised to see that I completed the hike at 9:45 p.m. AKDT. I didn’t realize how tired I was until driving back to Anchorage. I had been up since 3:15 a.m. PST.

Wildlife Photography Ethics

Posted on | August 13, 2010 | 39 Comments

I have kept this to myself for a long time but after several discussions about wildlife photography ethics during the photo tour I feel compelled to write about this. Digital technology makes it very easy and convenient to manipulate images however the photographer chooses to but manipulating the trust of your audience is something that you cannot fix with a healing brush. There are some photographers out there that would recommend cloning out the grass from the grizzly cub’s mouth. This is a topic that comes up a lot during critiques I’ve seen both in-person and online in the nature forums.

To understand why it is important to be upfront about your photography is because unless stated otherwise, the audience generally expects a nature photo to be of a scene that actually appeared before the camera. Certain things like adjusting exposure, contrast and saturation are considered acceptable for journalistic standards but adding and removing elements falls under the manipulation category. Those who stand by manipulation always claim that choosing a camera and lens is a form of manipulation so therefore since it’s art we can do whatever we want but that argument is sidestepping the real issues in my opinion. There is a big difference between using a telephoto lens or burning & dodging versus cloning out grass, twigs, branches, replacing an ear with another ear, placing animals into scenes, etc… What impresses people about nature photography is that the photographer was able to capture a single moment in time that they were a witness to and one that the viewer was not able to. When photographers start to implement CGI-like effects or other sleight-of-hand tricks into your nature photos then it loses any magical connection that the viewer would have gotten if it were actually captured at the time of the shutter closing. Just like Babe Ruth & Hank Aaron compared to Barry Bonds. Bonds has the most home runs but who is held in higher esteem?

Now if you follow the photography industry, you probably know that there have been numerous photo competition winners that have come under fire and been stripped of their awards due to undisclosed manipulations or false captioning. The one of wolves hopping over a fence comes to mind. When it comes to keeping your photography career in mind, you really need to consider who your audience is going to be. If you shoot nature (especially wildlife), you will likely license photos to a lot of textbooks, science, newspapers and environmental publications. These are all editorial in nature which means that the images are expected to not have elements cloned out and grizzly bear hair changed into different colors so the head stands out from the body. If you manipulate a few images here and there, can you really remember or be able to keep track of which images have been manipulated beyond basic image optimization? Unless you caption the image as manipulated chances are that the images will be lost into the mix and will eventually get submitted as editorial work. That could cost you your credibility. It’s just not worth it for professional photographers.

My Opinion: If you don’t like something about your photo then take a better photo or wait until the conditions are right. If isn’t happening then it wasn’t meant to be. When it is happening then you’ve got yourself something magical. The pursuit of the “Decisive Moment” is what nature photography is all about. Nature is chaotic. If you want “perfection” then go into studio photography.

Here are five general no-no’s in wildlife photography ethics:

1. Passing off captive animals as natural wildlife.

2. Adding or subtracting of elements within a photo.

3. Baiting wildlife with food. I’m not sure that bird feeders fall into the category but it is more about not leaving out a slab of steak to bait a grizzly bear. This behavior puts both people and the wildlife in danger.

4. Deliberately approaching wildlife beyond legal distances.

5. Harassing wildlife.

Update – 8/14/10: Paul Marcellini sent me this link to an excellent Audobon Magazine article on misleading wildlife photography practices: Picture Perfect

Where the Wild Things Are

Posted on | August 11, 2010 | 10 Comments

I didn’t quite realize what I had signed up for until David gave us the intro orientation back at the lodge. As he was telling us that he could almost guarantee that a grizzly bear would walk by us at some point during our stay and to not back away when it happens because that is a sign of submission, the first thoughts that popped into my head involved some four-letter words. It was then that it hit me that despite our cushy accommodations that we were truly knee-deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Honestly from my experiences in the Lower 48, I had assumed that all wildlife fear humans so you can never really get that close to them much less want to get close to them if you value your life. Little did I know that the wildlife at Silver Salmon Creek would be different.

The story as described by David was that prior to being established as Lake Clark National Park in the 1980’s, the region was dominated by hunters so the bears behaved like they do everywhere else. They run and hide. With the federal protection in place, hunting was phased out. As the 2nd and 3rd generation of bears grew up in an environment without hunting they had no reason to fear humans and thus has progressed to today where humans and grizzlies co-exist peacefully out in in the field. It is truly an incredible experience unlike anything else I’ve ever been a part of.

Often times the bears were so close to us that I was unable to take photos with a Canon 400mm f5.6 lens on a rented Canon 7D camera body. Ditto for the 1.4x teleconverter.

Parenting. Grizzly-Style.

Posted on | August 9, 2010 | 6 Comments

The plane ride over to Silver Salmon Creek was quite spectacular despite the cloudy conditions. As the plane flew further from Anchorage you could see the city gradually give way to coastal wetlands with nothing in the way of human development save for a few duck hunting cabins scattered about the landscape. Two things that struck me was an entire pine forest that had been devastated from the effects of beetle disease and another landscape that had been leveled by melted snow as a result of a volcano eruption the previous year. It is only in the most pristine landscape in the world can you truly witness nature’s forces at play.

Not long after our Cessna 206 landed on the beach, we were ushered over to Silver Salmon Creek Lodge to drop off our luggage and for a brief orientation before heading out into the field to photograph our first grizzly bears for a few hours before lunch. We almost immediately dove straight into the deep end and found a sow and her two cubs to photograph. The sow didn’t have much personality but the cubs played non-stop; wrestling with each other and playing with any stick or tree available. The above photo was actually taken later in the afternoon but it gives a good idea for their playful personality.

Silver Salmon Creek Lodge

Posted on | August 8, 2010 | 11 Comments

I have to give a big recommendation for Silver Salmon Creek Lodge. The owner, David Coray, is one of the nicest people I have ever met – very warm and accomodating. David grew up around Lake Clark many years before it became a National Park so he has so many stories to tell about the history of the land and how the grizzlies came to be so unique. More on that in another post though.

When you are staying at the lodge, it feels like a big rustic home which is in stark contrast to the harsh landscape awaiting just outside with miles of wind-swept beaches and cloud-socked mountains. At the first night’s dinner for example, we were served fresh salmon, wild rice and mashed potatoes in the upstairs dining room with grizzly bears roaming in the meadow within sight just outside the windows. Speaking of the food, we were served three hearty meals daily that helped us to endure the conditions out in the field.

The cabin that Ron and I shared was great. We both had our own rooms which came with perhaps the most comfortable bed I have ever slept in. I never felt cold at night because the sheets were warm in addition to having a good heating system in the cabin. In the cabin’s “living room”, we had a table and stools where we were able to take advantage of the intermittent internet access on our laptops while shooting the shit over Alaskan Summer Ales during our downtime with the occasional grizzly and cubs ambling by outside the porch.

The staff David has assembled was great as well. Our guide, Jenny, was amazing. Here’s this girl the same age as myself with a degree from Iowa State and somehow ends up in remote Alaska guiding during the summer and then spends the rest of the year completely off-the-grid with her husband (who also works there) just living off the land at their own cabin. It is a really rewarding lifestyle to be able to work five months out of the year doing something you love then spend the other seven months doing whatever you want. I would say that those five months of work though is much harder than any of us ever have to do; slogging through mud and enduring hours upon hours of cold rain to help her clients get the best photos. She was very chatty and knowledgeable about all things outdoors. She took us anywhere we wanted to go at any time of day and had a good attitude about it. It takes a certain special type of person to be able to do this sort of work in the remote regions of Alaska.

To sum it up: it is amazing that they are able to put such a top-notch operation together so far from the rest of the world. It is so far away that it takes a 1.5 hr. plane flight from Anchorage in a Cessna 206 to get there. It’s not cheap to travel there but it’s worth every cent. I’m not wealthy and yet I’d totally do it again without guilt.

For more information, have a look at their website, http://www.silversalmoncreek.com.

The Last Frontier

Posted on | August 7, 2010 | 14 Comments

I just got back from a week in Alaska and I don’t even know where to begin. Everything from the culture, the people, the scenery, wildlife and weather are unique to Alaska. I am not sure I could live there during the winters but it felt right to me. I talked to probably about 20 different people during my travels there and almost every one of them were serious outdoors-people from shuttle drivers to the federal wildlife biologist. It is part of their blood much like it is in mine if not more so.

Most of the trip was spent on Ron Niebrugge’s Grizzly Bear and Puffin photo tour. I knew it would be fun because Ron is the funniest photographer I know but little did I know it would be one of the greatest experiences of my life! Four others (Mike, Irene, Pam and Wilson) joined us and we couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to spend four days with. Hours were spent in the field braving the harsh Alaskan coast weather, at the dining room cracking sarcastic jokes and sharing stories, talking about life. Heck, I even learned new photography techniques and camera functions. Surprisingly, there were no complaints about weather. Our group was as tough as nails while the other photo group seemed less inclined to spend an entire day in cold rainy weather.

The one bit of advice I’d give to you is to pick a personable photo tour leader. There are a lot of photographers out there that have abrasive or “cardboard personalities”, and you don’t want that sort of person to be your tour leader. Having great travel companions is what makes traveling memorable more than the photos even. I already knew Ron but if you are considering signing up for a photo tour with a photographer you don’t know personally then ask other photographers that you know what they think of that person. Photographers talk amongst themselves – we all know who does what and what the personalities are like.

Well anyway… It will likely take a few months of work to catch up on the business side of things from the past two weeks of travel (and Yellowstone) so get ready for a lot of Alaskan nature photos and stories.

Grizzly Bear Nursing Behavior

Posted on | August 3, 2010 | 4 Comments

A photo of a grizzly bear cub feeding off it’s mother taken this morning in the rain at Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. This place is unbelievable but more on that next week.

Sonoma Mission

Posted on | July 30, 2010 | No Comments

Sonoma Mission was the 19th California Mission that I visited. The mission church was pretty though I was surprised by how small it was. Developed in 1823, Mission San Francisco de Solano (Sonoma Mission) was the last to be developed and is the northernmost of the 21 California Missions.

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Trees in Heaven

Posted on | July 29, 2010 | 6 Comments

After a late night of the Photowalk, I woke up before dawn with the hopes of photographing the Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands. No luck. It was completely fogged in so much that I couldn’t see the bridge despite standing next to it at the first turnoff in the Marin Headlands.

Since that didn’t work out (and since Muir Woods NM wasn’t open yet), Greg Lato and I ended up going to Mount Tamalpais State Park above the fog layer to shoot landscape photos. Mt. Tam is the best California State Park in my opinion and it is not even close. Not only is the scenery amazing, the weather is about as extreme as it gets here. Down below the fog in Muir Woods, it was 50 degrees meanwhile just a few miles away up along Bolinas Ridge it was pushing 80 degrees by 7:30 a.m.

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Mission Dolores San Francisco

Posted on | July 28, 2010 | No Comments

Saturday was a crazy day as I managed to photograph Mission Dolores in the afternoon in-between a brief morning visit to the California Academy of Sciences at Golden Gate Park (way too crowded), then lunch with friends, and before the evening Photowalk at the Seal Rocks. Mission Dolores was the 18th California Mission that I visited which is surprising to me since I used to live in San Francisco.

The one thing that stood out to me about Mission Dolores is that it is one of several missions that got swallowed up by a city. The cemetery outside is just a narrow strip of land that is surrounded by other buildings now. Looking at the historical paintings and models of Mission Dolores from the late 1700’s, it used to be isolated up in the hills just below Twin Peaks on a sprawling lot of land. The modern day lot looks nothing like that. The mission church however is still the original and is the oldest intact building remaining in San Francisco, having been built in 1791.

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